Judyta Zbierska‐Mościcka
Romanica Cracoviensia, Volume 23, Issue 1, Volume 23 (2023), pp. 85 - 91
https://doi.org/10.4467/20843917RC.23.009.17480The article discusses the book Écritures de femmes en Belgique francophone après 1945 edited by M. Quaghebeur. The publication is a collection of articles showcasing the diversity of women’s writing over several decades, crucial to the empowerment of women in Belgian social life and particularly in the cultural field. The chronological presentation of the individual articles highlights the central theme of the books discussed here, which is identity: gender, ethnicity, professional identity.
Judyta Zbierska‐Mościcka
Cahiers ERTA, Numéro 20, 2019, pp. 9 - 24
https://doi.org/10.4467/23538953CE.19.025.11549The work of Vera Feyder, a Wallo‐Serbo‐Polish‐Jewish author as she considers herself, has been developing, since its beginnings in 1961, in the feeling of abandonment. The poor childhood of the author, due to the absence of the father, the poet Maurice Federman who disappeared in the concentration camps, and the mother, Elise who due to lack of resources, had to place her daughter in the sanatoriums or homes for disadvantaged children, exerts a certain influence on the author who during all her lifetime couldn’t recover from this lack, important for her and for her work. The Feyder’s récit de filiation appears at first as a barely disguised autobiography; it is then a projection of nostalgia and rancor, even of hate which is the part of the identity of the author; it is finally getting even with the past, including the historical past.